[2022] Dauntless | Radiant Escalation, Alyra, and 1.10.3 AMA

Originally posted by twit-twot

If you can, even in vague detail, explain the direction the game is going to take after radiant escalation. How far into the future is planned when it comes to new behemoths and game modes?

Originally posted by lGhostWolfel

Will we ever get more exotics? Would be nice to have more ways through our gear to spice up builds

Originally posted by -eXiGe-

Are there plans to improve behemoth AI; will an agro system ever exist?

Will there be a time where we won't take damage from the opposite side of the behemoths attack or a slow moving behemoth movement?

Originally posted by Sparky1083

Second question is this,

At endgame, I have a ton of parts saved up from behemoths I dont even actively hunt. Will there ever be a use for these?

Personally, I was thinking of some sort of custom island, base or ship that we could use the parts in to effect behemoths and environmental factors that you would encounter on the island.

But that's obviously too big of a task, so will we be able to trade parts with other players or NPC's for rams/tonics/different parts at some point?

Originally posted by Relevant-Rooster-298

I love the new update! Radiant Esca is a lot of fun, looks beautiful, and the puzzle is a super cool concept. Do you guys have plans to revamp the previous escas to update them to the quality of Radiant or are you more focused on the new game mode and other future content? Would you be able to explain what your ideas are for the endless game mode and other future content you have next up on the release schedule along with possible timeline?

Originally posted by FaultProfessional163

The alyra ability being changed by jumping is extremely inconsistent for me idk why

Originally posted by RiceroniDish

Here's a few questions:

• How long is it expected to take to release the new hunt mode that's in the works?
• I hear that the main priorities are the new hunt mode and behemoth refreshes. What are the priorities after those two items?
• Will there be any plans for community-driven events? (e.g during Umbral escalation before new Ramsgate)

Originally posted by Free_Hooks

Lightbound Boreus when?

Originally posted by Maryatta

Will there be new lanterns in the future?

Originally posted by Free_Hooks

Lightbound Boreus when?

Originally posted by DemolizerTNT

"RNG"

happens

Originally posted by Immediate-Ad6790

Can I go on quest with Ramsgate NPCs? Like hunt behemoths with Kat for a mission or with Janek Zai?

Originally posted by bearysleepy

Are there any plans in the works for creating weapon and armor sets for the rest of the dire behemoths? It seems somewhat strange that only TDD has it...

Originally posted by Sarkastikor

What is something major you guys are planning, now that all escalations are over?

Originally posted by MrCobalt313

Whatever happened to the Radiant Boreus variant?

Originally posted by Resolve69420

would alyra give me a magic glyph weapon for a scooby snack

Originally posted by Kupogotbars

When is a new weapon going to be released?

Originally posted by Kupogotbars

When is a new weapon going to be released?

Originally posted by StormerGaming

what behemoths could alyra canonically beat

Originally posted by Meirnon

What does the magic dragon fox say?

Originally posted by UmbreTube25

What are the plans for guilds? Will there be events that can take place? I think a mode where 2 guilds get put on an island and have to slay as many behemoths as they can.

Originally posted by Yuxkta

If you could add 1 feature to the game, no matter how far fetched it sounds, what would you choose? Doesn't need to be a plan, can only be a pipe dream. Just want to hear what the developers have in their minds.

Originally posted by Nearby-Wing

How is it that normal Skarn has blue aether on his back when feeding underground, but Rockfall Skarn has GREEN aether on his back while feeding underground?

Originally posted by rossinerd

Are there plans to introduce a new Umbral behemorh with it's own armor set? As it is the element with the least armor sets (3 total, while Terra has 4, Shock has 6 and all the others have 5)

Originally posted by DemolizerTNT

What's next?

Weapon Reforge or Bow?

Originally posted by GENM_ACT

What will happen to Neutral behemoths and Neutral weapons in the future?

Originally posted by Lord_Nethermore

Love the new behemoth Alrya. What was the concept behind it and how did you create the name for it?

Originally posted by Yuxkta

If you could add 1 feature to the game, no matter how far fetched it sounds, what would you choose? Doesn't need to be a plan, can even be a pipe dream. Just want to hear what the developers have in their minds.

Originally posted by Sparky1083

Fourth and final question. (Sorry for so many by the way)

Play as behomoth? I'm guessing nah, but it could be refreshing to be on the other end of the stick

Originally posted by AnimeMania

In Paradox Breaks can you make the symbols that Alyra places on the ground brighter, with the strong sunlight and the shiny stone floor they can be hard to see, especially the yellow ones. Can you give some hints about what the different symbols that Alyra places on the ground do and how to counteract them, the green one seems extremely strong, longlasting and deadly.

Originally posted by GENM_ACT

The Aether Striker has continued to be revised downward since it was added, and while a sentence in the introduction to the weapon used to mention that it could assist fellow players, that sentence has now been removed. What is the future of the Aether Striker?

Originally posted by Yuxkta

If you could add 1 feature to the game, no matter how far fetched it sounds, what would you choose? Doesn't need to be a plan, can even be a pipe dream. Just want to hear what the developers have in their minds.

Originally posted by BasketResponsible929

will we get a new radiant esca ultra armor? because i have the hunt pass still for the same armor set given for getting max resca level

Originally posted by Falminar

and frostwulf!

Originally posted by Devon_Pro

I got a few if someone has the time…

1. Will we ever see Shock Variants? and if so can they PLEASE be first time Variants. Like Shrowd, Rifty, Valomyr, etc)

2. No offence to the creators, but Alyra’s Moveset is very small and reused ALOT of moves from elsewhere in the game, is there a chance we can see Alyra’s Moveset broadened so I’m not dodging tail sweeps for the entire fight?

3. Will the Behemoths Refreshes include all of them (over a span of time) or only ones you see having major issues?

An answer for any of these would be greatly appreciated

Originally posted by GENM_ACT

Will there be more hunting grounds in the future? Is there any story behind the hunting ground with the same design base?

Originally posted by creativeguy66v3

Since Alyra can use multiple elements is it possible that there can be new or already existing behemoths using multiple elements. Like a Drask with lighting and fire?

Originally posted by EmbarrassedCricket99

Why is the radiant escalation catered to leeches? Healing dream allows them to claim how helpful they are just laying around to heal teammates that don’t want them there and driving up the danger meter. The turrents seem to be a neat idea until we realize it‘s just so leeches can claim to be helping by staying on the outside of the arena. On top of that, the Strega amp went from being useful running solo heroic escalations (refills stims and gives bonus when using potions) to helping leeches double their rewards for playing poke-poke hide and seek. Just because it’s the easiest walkthrough of all the escalations doesn’t mean we should be encouraging their antics. Why, devs? Why?

Originally posted by KeteX72

Will there ever be behemoth on behemoth interactions? It's to make the game feel more alive and allowing behemoths to hurt each other would help with the weird clipping of attacks like beams and other things.

I was thinking about: if there are two behemoths that counter each other, they are more hostile against each other or something like the such, or if a behemoth accidentally hits another behemoth, the other behemoth will do an attack to the other behemoth for doing so.

It's mostly to make 1 on 2 fights a bit more bearable.

Originally posted by Lord_Nethermore

I feel that Dauntless is in a good place right now with Radiant Escalation added. Now you will be putting new content on the back burner and focus on bugs and improving systems?

Originally posted by Meirnon

What does the magic dragon fox say?

Originally posted by WIIU_Awesome

So an AMA of a released content?

i guess not much i can ask about except WHY YOU TROLLED US WITH THE FISH DESIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kidding it was funny

Originally posted by Maryatta

Was the Radiant Escalation hard to design?

Originally posted by Sparky1083

Question:We haven't seen a new neutral behemoth in ages. The element seems to be abandoned as a whole, not being even given a spot on some element tier lists for the game. Will we see more neutral related content?

I personally, had believed that the Alyra was actually going to be neutral and be able to use all elements, rather than none.

Originally posted by GENM_ACT

What will happen to the Escalation Hunt in the future? Will there be more keystone behemoths in the future? There is no uniformity in the type of reward you get when you reach level 25 of the escalation, do you plan to add it?

Originally posted by Devon_Pro

I got a few if someone has the time…

1. Will we ever see Shock Variants? and if so can they PLEASE be first time Variants. Like Shrowd, Rifty, Valomyr, etc)

2. No offence to the creators, but Alyra’s Moveset is very small and reused ALOT of moves from elsewhere in the game, is there a chance we can see Alyra’s Moveset broadened so I’m not dodging tail sweeps for the entire fight?

3. Will the Behemoths Refreshes include all of them (over a span of time) or only ones you see having major issues?

An answer for any of these would be greatly appreciated

Originally posted by Lord_Nethermore

Very cool. Who came up with the name Alrya? Is it a creation of an ancient spellcaster or wizard?

Originally posted by Lord_Nethermore

I loved the behemoth draw stream!! Especially creating the Crudge with the developers. Is it possible to have another one in the near future even though you guys are improving the current systems?

Originally posted by 26nova

What is the current state for neutral?

In the past it was mentioned that neutral would probably need some sort of rework and even was the idea of just removing it altogether, back then we were told that you guys were gonna focus on elemental based content, but is there any new insight since then on what exactly is being planned to be done with them?

What is the state of weapon refreshes?

After the chain blades refresh (and all its overreactions) it seems like refreshes have been put in the backlog, theres only hammer and axe left but we havent heard about when those two are exactly expected to be given some of the love they do really need.

Is there any date we can expect refreshes to be looked at again? What does this mean for weapon 8 (bow)? It was supposedly pushed back until refreshes were done, so if refreshes are getting delayed, Is it also getting delayed further?

When can we expect an updated roadmap?

Both the roadmap and update schedule are kinda done with all the updates they got written down, 90% of the stuff there is currently live. There still is 1.10.4 or and 1.10.5 left for the update schedule, but there wasnt any meaningful content left planned for it anyways.
Specially since the valomyr improvements and radiant boreus seems to have been delayed until further notice.

Lastly, more of a personal question in a way but its related to the roadmap.

The "Quest Gaps" part of the roadmap is not aimed towards a specific patch, but will we know when this is done? I would need to know to be sure when can I reset a different account to play thru the new quests added to update the wiki.

Originally posted by Aero1372

Ruins of old Ramsgate as umbral themed hunting ground

PLEASE!?

Originally posted by Lord_Nethermore

I can imagine it is a fun process. I have been making the Nether reports here and there. Have you devs been reading them?

Originally posted by Glittering_March4467

Is the Middleman ever going to sell cells again?

Originally posted by 26nova

Remove and rework is the way.

Having the neutrals as "basic" to let the elemental feel special make the neutrals feel, well, not so special. Must suck to be a Gnasher xD

Originally posted by Devon_Pro

I got a few if someone has the time…

1. Will we ever see Shock Variants? and if so can they PLEASE be first time Variants. Like Shrowd, Rifty, Valomyr, etc)

2. No offence to the creators, but Alyra’s Moveset is very small and reused ALOT of moves from elsewhere in the game, is there a chance we can see Alyra’s Moveset broadened so I’m not dodging tail sweeps for the entire fight?

3. Will the Behemoths Refreshes include all of them (over a span of time) or only ones you see having major issues?

An answer for any of these would be greatly appreciated

Originally posted by Lord_Nethermore

I hope that you guys enjoy them. If you type Nether Report in the Reddit search bar or in the Dauntless subreddit you can find them. If not just shoot me a message. Also if you wouldn’t mind sending these to the rest of the team. Want to make sure everyone sees these.

Originally posted by narga2

The in-game model for Alyra has a large mane over the front of its chest, but the promotional image doesn't seem to have this. Personally I prefer the promotional image design, is there any reason it ended up differently?

Originally posted by jordanpowpow

Yep!

Originally posted by AnimeMania

Are the beams that Radiant Koshai and Alyra shoot out supposed to go right through the other Behemoth and hit you when you are fighting two Behemoths at the same time?

Originally posted by Falminar

so those new heroic esca behemoth titles - are there plans to further adjust the keystones and expand the changes (like reskinning them) to bring them more in line with other dires? or is it just to sound cool and thats it

that also leaves koshai, valo & rifty as the only ones to have heroics but still be untitled, will they get titles too?

also im curious what the beam system rework is all about, whatre your plans with that?

Originally posted by Genkai-

Would it be possible to have our build slots renamed?

Originally posted by GENM_ACT

What will happen to Omnicell in the future? There is no terra element omnicell at the moment, but with the neutral element gone, will Bastion become a terra element omnicell?

Originally posted by GENM_ACT

Are there any plans to redistribute previously released decorative items? I am very disappointed with the current situation as many items used to be available in the store.

Originally posted by Aero1372

I guess Gnasher and Shrike would be great terra-behemoths and Quillshot a nice frost-behemoth but it just doesn't feel right.

Maybe not remove it but change it into a completely new element like: -Aqua -Crystal (Diamond, Amethyst, Ruby, Emerald (not stone or ice like in other elements)) -Metal (oh wait no, problems with Phaelanx there...)

I'd love to see a terra-shrike though... If you don't remove it, I'll keep hoping for a sporestruck shrike :)

Originally posted by AnimeAlley03

Personally I would like to see a neutral legendary weapon with the boss in the hunting grounds how Chronovore used to be